Edge

Overview

Important

  • Available only to Cloud Platform Enterprise and Site Factory subscribers.

Acquia Edge is a family of products to improve the security and performance of web applications. The following table lists the offerings available for Cloud Platform and Site Factory subscriptions:

Offering

Description

Available for

Edge CDN

Provides a highly customizable, globally load balanced content delivery network (CDN) so that visitors can interact with your application at the fastest possible speeds, irrespective of their location.

Acquia Edge Powered by Akamai

Edge Web Application & API Protection

Secures your application with protection against distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and high-speed DNS. Edge Security examines web traffic looking for suspicious activities.

Acquia Edge Powered by Akamai

Acquia Edge WAAP & Bot Management

A flexible framework to better manage the wide array of bots accessing their websites every day. Identify bots as they first arrive, categorize different types of bots, and apply the most appropriate management policy for each category.

Acquia Edge Powered by Akamai

Edge Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Edge WAF is a service that provides a web application firewall and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) protection to help mitigate the effects of online threats, and optimize legitimate visitor requests for protected websites.

Acquia Edge Powered by Cloudflare.

Acquia Edge is powered by the following CDN providers:

  • Akamai

  • Cloudflare

For more details, see product-specific documentation for the respective provider-powered offering:

  • Acquia Edge Powered by Akamai

  • Acquia Edge Powered by Cloudflare

Contact your account management team if you do not know which provider is powering your Edge subscription.